Twins Magazine - TWINS Holiday 2015
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Double the Gifts, Double the Giving It’s Our Annual Holiday Gift Guide Our Top Picks! Open Season on Sitters… Cornering the Marketing on Holiday Sitters! Celebrating the Holiday Season with Your Twins 5 Ways to Help Your Twins Sleep Soundly this Holiday Season!
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Transcript of Twins Magazine - TWINS Holiday 2015
Double the Gifts, Double the Giving
It’s Our Annual Holiday
Gift GuideOur Top Picks!
Open Season on Sitters…Cornering the Marketing on Holiday Sitters!
Celebrating the Holiday Season with Your Twins
5 Ways to Help Your Twins Sleep Soundly this Holiday Season!
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Columns:Mom-2-Mom ______________________ 6 Real Advice for Mothers of Multiples by Wendy Bohon Clarey
Raising Twins through Each Age & Stage
Pregnant with Twins— CAUTION: Mom at Work by Ruby Coats-Mosher _____ 10
Infant Twins—Finding the Right Formula for Your Twinfants by Jonathan Rowntree _____ 12
Toddler Twins— Assume Nothing When it Comes to Toy Assembly and on Christmas Eve, Even Less by Melinda L. Wentzel ______ 14
Preschool Twins— Double the Gifts, Double the Giving… how to handle their hectic holiday wish lists! by Patricia Edmister 16
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Special Holiday Features:
On the Cover:
In Every Issue:A Note from the Editor _______________ 3
News _____________________________ 4
Double Takes _____________________ 36Featuring Holiday-themed photos of 40 sets of twins!
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Finding the Right Formula for Your Twinfants
Open Season on Sitters
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TWINS Magazine’s 2015 Annual Holiday Gift Guide
Shop Smart without Breaking the Bank this Holiday Season by Rachel Namoff, Arapahoe Asset Management ______________________ 5
5 Ways to Help Your Twins Sleep Soundly this Holiday Season by Nicole Johnson, Founder and Lead Sleep Consultant at The Baby Sleep Site® ______ 8
Celebrating the Holiday Season with Your Twins by Christina Baglivi Tinglof ___________ 18
Twins Night Before Christmasby Cynthia F. Panks _________________ 21
Open Season on Sitters… Cornering the Market on Holiday Sitters by Nancy A. Moeller ________________ 22
TWINS Magazine’s 2015 Annual Holiday Gift Guide… Our top gift ideas for twins and you! ________________________ 24
10 Ways to Preserve Your Twins 1st Christmas by Karin A Bilich ________ 34
5 Shop Smart without Breaking the Bank this Holiday Season
Holiday 2015
Meet these adorable 9-month old fraternal twins, Cason & Calon from Massillon, Ohio. Cason is always on the move. Once he learned how to roll, he was across the room in seconds. Calon has been laid back since he was born. He just wants to be held all the time. He gets up on his hands and knees and rocks back and forth. Together, they have worked really hard at ignoring each other. Ca-son will occasionally pick on his brother, as he army crawls over to Calon and snatches whatever he was playing with. Proud mom Jessica says “These boys will have their lives well documented as our family owns a photography business. How amazing it is to be able to capture the daily lives of twins!”
Cover Photos Taken By: Jessica Cardinal of Cardinal Family Photography in Massillon, Ohiowww.cardinalfamilyphotography.com
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ANOTEFROMTHEEdiTOr
Learning to Not Sweat the Small Stuff…Raising kids these days is tough work. It’s filled with so many ups and downs. It’s challenging, exciting, heart-breaking, joyful, tiring, educational and amazing all at the same time… And, it’s the best job I will ever have in my lifetime!
When my life gets over-scheduled, over-stressed and hard to handle with my four boys (twins and two younger singletons) which it often does, it’s sometimes difficult for me to remember how truly blessed I am. To even have the opportunity to experience all the wonderful (and not so wonderful) things motherhood brings to my life is such an amazing gift…in fact THE MOST AMAZING GIFT I could ever have. So why then do I continue to get stressed out over every little thing?
Starting this holiday season and into the new year, one of my main goals will be to concentrate more on everything that is important in life and focus less on distractions and the little things that don’t matter and won’t matter a year from now anyway.
That is why I absolutely love the book by Richard Carlson called “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff and It’s All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things From Taking Over Your Life”
This book makes so much sense to busy parents like us and it’s easy to read with a ton of practical tips and advice inside its’ small, paperback frame. It is actually the best $8.75 you will ever spend! With chapters entitled ‘Make Peace with Imperfection’; ‘Let Go of the Idea that Gentle, Relaxed People Can’t Be Super Achievers’ and ‘Turn Your Melodrama into a Mellow-Drama’ is advice to live by... Other chapters like ‘Ask Yourself the Question, Will This Matter a Year from Now?’; ‘Learn to Live in the Present Moment’; and ‘Be the First One to Act Loving or Reach Out’ clearly is a practical guideline when juggling all of the numerous roles we play in our lives. So this holiday season, take a “time-out” just for you and try practicing some of the tips in that book to help you eliminate the stressors in your life. Maybe then you can enjoy your parenting journey much more and begin to concentrate on making special memories with your family that will last a life-time… So, join me in not sweating the small stuff because it is all just small stuff anyway, right?
We are so excited to present our annual Holiday Gift Guide issue that gives you a ton of great gift ideas for your twins/multiples and for you, too! From our top gift picks, to stocking stuffers, tech gifts and more we know you will really enjoy this jam-packed issue of TWINS! We also include timely holiday articles like: Celebrating the Holiday Season with your Twins; Open Season on Babysitters; 5 ways to help your twins sleep soundly and ways to shop smart without breaking the bank this year! Plus, you will love all our adorable holiday-themed pictures of 40 sets of twins/multiples to round out the issue. We do hope you enjoy every moment this holiday season brings to you and yours and we thank you for your continued loyalty and support for the world-leading resource and #1 parenting magazine for twins/multiples for the past 31 years!
Sincerely,
Christa Reed,, Editor-in-Chief [email protected]
Volume 32 Number 6Holiday 2015
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EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS
HolidayChristina Baglivi Tinglof; Wendy Bohon Clarey; Ruby Coats-Mosher; Patricia Edmister; Nicole Johnson; Nancy A. Moeller; Rachel Namoff; Christa D. Reed; Jonathan Rowntree; and Melinda L. Wentzel
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